Earlier, Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field. India made two changes in their playing eleven, bringing in Mohammed Shami and Jaydev Unadkat for Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma, while Australia fielded an unchanged side.

Bailey scored a measured 98

Bailey had good fortune on his side when Virat Kohli put him down at third slip (off Shami) before he had opened his account, and again on 35, when R Ashwin dropped him at mid-wicket, Vinay Kumar being the unfortunate bowler.

The batsman made the most of the reprieves to score a magnificent 98. It was his 11th career fifty, and third of the series - after his 85 in Pune and unbeaten 92 in Jaipur.

Bailey's 93-ball knock was inclusive of seven hits to the fence and three over it, but he fell short of a well-deserved hundred when he skied a Vinay Kumar delivery to Rohit Sharma at deep mid-wicket.